Aveley Secondary College

I don’t even know where to begin on reviewing this horrid school. I had been going to my old school for ten years and thought that was bad. Nothing prepared me for the three years of BULLSHIT at Aveley Secondary College. From my experience, the students at this school aren’t all that bad. Although, I can’t speak for everyone. My main problem with this school which I’m sure EVERYONE can agree with is the teachers and education system. The teachers at this school are way worse than the students. You wouldn’t even need to get bullied because the teachers are your biggest bullies. They treat their students like they’re their fucking enemies. The student services teachers are the absolute worst. No help AT ALL. The teachers do not care for you, they want to see you fail. The amount of times I’ve been set up for failure by the teachers is fucking sad. They allow you to make cheat sheets for tests and tell you what would be on the test. Only to find out that they lied and none of the topics they gave you were actually on the test so now you’ve studied for the completely wrong thing. The amount of times I’ve been told by the student services teachers that “if you don’t pass your olna, you won’t be able to graduate!” Why are you purposely trying to scare me? Graduating without passing olna is possible, you get a completion certificate but not your WACE. Lying to your students and scaring them just cause you wanna go up on the ladder? Just because you want the government to see how good your school is because so many students are passing? Don’t make me laugh. A huge thing I wanted to talk about that absolutely pissed me off the most is the fact that I didn’t end up graduating. I don’t completely blame the school for this, I understand that it is partially my fault and that I should’ve focused on school a bit more. HOWEVER. Not telling me that I’m not graduating TILL THE VERY LAST MINUTE and not even telling me that I was actually redoing a whole ass grade THE ENTIRE YEAR is extremely FUCKED UP. Looking me IN THE FUCKING EYES at a graduation gown try on and not even telling me that I would not be graduating EVEN THOUGH YOU KNEW I WOULDN’T is extremely FUCKED UP. And don’t even get me started on attendance! Apparently 80% is horrible attendance! You need to do better! Oh and don’t you even DARE be a second late! You’ll get a detention! They also like to punish students for their “bad attendance” such as not allowing them to go to functions such as the ball or a river cruise. They want you to be there 100% and really couldn’t give a shit if you were on your death bed. Terrible system. School layout is shitty too. Every building looks the bloody same and are called the same thing so good luck on your first day. Don’t even think about going to student services for help. On my first day I was greeted with a lovely “what are you looking for now?” in a very annoyed voice as if me repeatedly coming in was annoying her when that’s the whole point of students services. How kind you are miss! Thats about all the bullshit that happened to me. Besides the occasional rude interactions with the vice principal which are common because of course she’s not nice! Oh ,and unfortunately, you’ll ALWAYS see her. Whether it’s to yell at you for failing, wearing the wrong sock colour, wearing the wrong uniform or even just standing. She’ll always be there. Anyways, if you’re thinking of enrolling your kid here, don’t. Don’t come to this school, don’t ever come to school.

I’m heartbroken and angry with Aveley Secondary College. This school does not care about its students’ mental health or well-being at all. No matter how many times we ask for help even when we are crying and clearly struggling they just judge us instead of supporting us.

It feels like when we speak up about what we’re going through, instead of helping us, they make us feel like we’re causing trouble. Sometimes it even feels like they want to get us in trouble just for asking for help.

School should be a safe place where students feel heard, supported, and cared for. Instead, many of us feel ignored, judged, and punished for having feelings. It’s exhausting and unfair, and it needs to change.

I truly hope Aveley Secondary College starts listening to its students and takes mental health seriously before more people get hurt.

I went to ASC for the entirety of years 7-9 and decided to leave half way through year 10. i was being severely bullied by many students and it felt as though the teachers wanted part in that too. Despite the teachers knowing I suffer with my mental health, they would go out of their way to shame me and often get mad at me when I was having an off day. Shouldn’t they want to help?? I am now in year 12 at another local school and I am doing SO much better. The teachers are amazing and student services are actually accommodating. Im completing a certificate 2 and have over 100 hours of workplace learning, something ASC couldn’t even offer. & the school wonders why so many people, including teachers, leave. I would never recommend this school to anyone, going to ASC made me question my worth and something much more valuable. Dont even get me started on the teaching methods this school uses. Most the teachers at this school need to be fired ASAP. It’s ridiculous how they too, can be your biggest bully AND some of the most slow people ever.

Worst school I’ve ever been to.

i dont like asc they dont let us express our culture for example for lgbtqia’s days they have full on speakers and set up and whole lil thingy but for harmony day or multicultural day we have to write a letter to a teacher that has nothing to do with multiculturalism we had to set up our own multicultural day at first teachers didnt like it but they had to bcs we didnt let them stop us from expressing our culture and the teachers dont care about our well-being all we do is learn learn and learn we never get breaks after tests we do more topics they need to understand we arent robots and we get in trouble for anything and everything for no reason too it be over the dumbest things like u were late to school or ur socks and major problems like racism gets ignored and when we take things into our own hands its a “problem” if the school started to step up and be a better school and environment then they wont have as many students not showing up or leaving the school,

Most teachers at the school are great however the office is very poor. I’ve had many run ins with them not doing their job properly and have had to email the principle multiple times including 1 meeting for an apology on behalf of the office staffs behaviour. I would never send any of my family’s kids there